Ray Kurland's sagacious view of the Mechanical CAD/PLM industry and its happenings

Down the hatch for SGI

Guess they lost their way a long time ago. It comes from not having a sustainable technology advantage and not having the gumption to continually reinvent themselves. Their incredible graphics lead was chipped away by much lower cost graphics cards, such as those from Nvidia, while their CPU performance was no match for low cost servers. Rackable Systems is the new owner of what is left of the assets. Click on their link to view the management, very few of whom are from the old SGI.